For any member of the Homo lineage, half a million years on Earth can be considered a pretty good innings. Most of our human ancestors
In the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, after the death of a pharaoh, embalmers would remove the brain matter of their ex-ruler via the nose.
The mystery of a 200-year-old bottle has been solved. It turns out, it wasn’t a vessel for booze, but a “witch bottle” filled with pee
Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b, is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf Orkaria, located just 48 light-years from the Solar System. It was
Was blood a factor in the demise of the Neanderthals? New research is showing that Homo sapiens underwent huge changes in their blood groups after
In the Netflix documentary series Life On Our Planet, chapter six is devoted to birds and their evolutionary success since other dinosaurs died out in
Unless you’re a velvet-tongued narcissist, you’ve probably experienced that gut-wrenching moment when you hear a recording of your own voice. The unfamiliar, grating sound that’s
This week, a new analysis puts into question if the COVID-19 lockdowns really did affect the temperature of the Moon, the largest study of its
Long before Westeros, fantasy and science-fiction author George R.R. Martin had a hand in creating Wild Cards, a shared science-fiction universe involving a pathogen called
While the violent plant life of Day of the Triffids is thankfully fictional, that doesn’t mean that you’re entirely safe from our planet’s flora. Certain
